Unpacking the Central Idea

 One important part of a unit journey is to make the central idea clear to the learners. For Grade 1s, it is always a challenge given the limited vocabulary that they have. In this case, we try to paraphrase the central idea and write it in a simpler version which is child-friendly.

To do this, we start with highlighting the BIG words in the central idea. In this unit's case, they identified the following as BIG words:

- artists, styles, techniques, create, different, visual arts

Grade 1s went around the school to ask the community about their understanding of the BIG words we highlighted.

These are what they got:

Then we took note of the meanings of BIG words, came up with a simpler and clearer version that is friendly for kids.